Brewer police arrested a Harrington man and charged him with drug possession Wednesday night.

Sgt. Chris Martin reported that he stopped a car on North Main Street at about 11:15 p.m. because it had a missing front license plate. As the passenger looked for the car’s paperwork, Martin noticed a pill bottle in the glove compartment.

Martin said the driver, Mac Moore, 27, told him the pill bottle belonged to a co-worker. It contained 12 pills of prescription-strength ibuprofen.

Martin searched the car and found a pair of pants in the trunk with two hypodermic needles in the pocket. He arrested Moore on a charge of possession of Schedule Z drugs.

Bangor police summoned a man who allegedly pummeled a new acquaintance about the face Wednesday night.

Officer Shawn Green reported that he and Sgt. Tom Reagan went to a Third Street address at about 9:45 p.m. for a report of an assault. While Reagan stopped a group of people who were across the street, Green followed a trail of blood that led up the front steps and into the common hallway of an apartment building.

Green said he found a man in the hallway with an aluminum bat. The man dropped the bat as soon as he saw the officer, and apologized. Green and the man went outside, and Green noticed that a lot of blood was coming from the man’s chin. The man said his assailant had come into his apartment with a group of friends, but became belligerent and “went off,” punching the complainant repeatedly in the face.

While the man was being treated in the Bangor Fire Department ambulance, Green assembled Reagan’s group of detainees into a line. The complainant hesitated at first, Green said, but then identified a bloody-handed man in the line as his attacker.

Green summoned William Brinton on a charge of assault.

Bangor police arrested a man on forgery charges after a brief foot chase early Wednesday.

Officer Shawn Green reported that he received a voice mail Tuesday from Brewer police Officer John Knapp, who had arrested Michael Moody, 24, of Bangor on Monday. Knapp told Green that Moody may have identified himself as Michael Thornton. Both identities had the same birthday.

Green said he had stopped a man verbally identified as Michael Thornton a week before, and summoned him for driving without a license because there was no record of him.

At about half past midnight, Green heard that Officer William Lawrence had met Moody on First Street. When Green met up with Lawrence he learned that Moody had gone into a building, where a woman told the officers Moody had left out the back door.

Lawrence found Moody behind the house. When Moody told Green he was Michael Thornton, Green arrested him for failing to provide a correct name, violation of conditions of release, aggravated forgery and driving after revocation as a habitual offender.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball